GT 4.0.4 Incremental Release Notes: RLS

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.4. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.3, bug fixes since 4.0.3 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.4 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.4 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.4.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the RLS 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

Other than bug fixes, no changes have occurred for RLS since GT 4.0.4.

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 4361: globus_object_printable_to_string() is the 'wrong way' to print errors
  • Bug 4381: RLS client build fails due to missing '-I' flag on compile line
  • Bug 4654: Client core dumps when doing bulk attribute add

4. Known Problems

  • Threading/Libc Problems: set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 in your environment and see Platform Notes for more information.
  • Bug 2601: Missing 'sigset' linking error
  • Bug 2821: GT3.9.5: jni.h not found when compiling RLS on MacOS X
  • Bug 3253: GT4 build fails on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
  • Bug 3656: ACLs cannot be modified dynamically
  • Bug 3828: RLSClient crashes when a null parameter is passed to a method
  • Bug 4114: Java apis fail on 64 bit machine (patch available)
  • Bug 4141: regexec call in auth.c's auth_getperms
  • Bug 4142: globus-rls-admin -s always indicates RLI does not exist
  • Bug 4512: RLS query returns incomplete result on 64bit system (patch available)
  • Bug 4630: RLS java client cannot load libaries through JNI on Mac (see workaround)

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